Climbing versus Clinging

by Tomato Lady on April 13, 2009

This is a literal flop. That’s about 150 pounds of rose on the ground, I’m guessing. Erect, it reaches 20 feet. It’s not suspended off the ground in that arch you see. There’s just that much plant piled underneath it. It broken two well secured wires IN HALF. And…..

Warped an iron trellis. Can you see it? WOW.

So here’s what we’ve learned. CLIMBING is not CLINGING. When you go to cover a wall, go for CLINGING, as in something that grabs a hold of your wall and won’t let go. As in ivy, Virginia creeper, pothos.

I have a climbing rose. A mamma-jamma happy prolific climbing rose, that no “rose support” could dream of containing. I guess I’ll have to cut it back (to the ground?) and start over with MORE concrete nails and MORE wires. Like a hundred.

And it was just starting to bloom….. :(

Ivory

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